Paul G.
Paul Goodchild is the founder and CEO of Shield Security for WordPress – a best-in-class security plugin for the protection of critical WordPress-based websites and businesses.
Paul focuses on security features that deliver realworld results for client through the prevention of security breaches before they can happen. Prevention is preferrable over busy-security-work that sees you putting out fires and cleaning up your sites after an infection has taken hold.
Paul maintains that while a security plugin for WordPress is absolutely crucial, “security” is a practice and must involve your entire website and WordPress hosting environment, including your own local device security and security hygiene.
Latest blogs from Paul
Beyond Shield Security 7
With the release of Shield Security 7, we're now looking ahead to see what's coming next. This article is a brief outline of our short-term plans.
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The New Shield Security 7.0
Shield Security v7.0 was released 28th January, 2019. We’ve been hard at work the past few months building the new Shield Security v7.0. As with any big project, it took on a life of its own and took longer than...
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WP Shield Security – Release 6.10
Shield v6.10 ships with Two-Factor Authentication Recovery Codes, official web crawler/bot detection, custom traffic watcher exclusions and much more!
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Recover Your WordPress Account with Two-Factor Authentication Backup Codes
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is a wonderful thing as it does a great job of protecting our accounts. But it has its weaknesses. You’ll know this if you’ve ever lost your phone with your Google Authenticator codes. It can be a...
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Announcement: Dropping Support For PHP 5.2/5.3 From Shield Version 7.0+
[2022-11-1] Update: As of Shield v17 we’re dropping support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1. In order to run Shield v17, your web hosting will need to run at least PHP 7.2+ [2020-4-20] Update: As of Shield v10, we’ve moved to...
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WP Shield Security – Release 6.9
The latest release for our WordPress security appliance is a big one in many ways. We’ve added a whole new module that lets you monitor and review all web requests to your WordPress site, added a few new options and...
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WP Shield Security – Release 6.8
Shield Security v6.8 sees the release of White Labelling that lets you entirely rebrand the Shield Security plugin to fit with your company and brand. You choose exactly how it appears to your customers, and in your style.
Continue Reading →Why don’t WordPress Automatic Updates always work?! [Ask Paulie Anything, Episode 9]
In this video we discuss what the WordPress Background (Automatic) Updates system is, how it works, and discover why sometimes it doesn't work as expected.
Continue Reading →Will Shield support renaming WordPress DB Prefix? [Ask Paulie Anything #8]
In this episode of Ask Paulie Anything, we discuss the merits of changing your WordPress database prefix, in terms of security hardening.
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WP Shield Security – Release 6.7
Shield Security v6.7 brings with it integration for the new WordPress privacy and GDPR controls, as well as a brand-new security dashboard for all your site security needs - we're calling it "Insights".
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